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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: docs for insert-file-contents use 'bytes'
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:58:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KlDSp-00039b-Qx@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868wt845op.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Wed,  01 Oct 2008 11:54:14 -0500)

In article <868wt845op.fsf@lifelogs.com>, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> That's fine.  I would just seek back N bytes and resynchronize (see
> above).  I could also make the mode only work with bytes, bypassing
> encoding schemes.  This would be a good thing, actually, for cases where
> the user might page or search through many megabytes of data quickly.

How about reading a file in a unibyte buffer with
no-conversion, and decode one page by one into a view
buffer.   Except for UTF-16 encoding, it is safe to set the
decoding boundary at newline positions.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 19:58 docs for insert-file-contents use 'bytes' Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-29 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-29 21:04   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-30  6:06     ` Miles Bader
2008-09-30  7:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-30 13:48       ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-30 15:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-30 16:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-01  0:44         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-01 16:54           ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-02  1:33             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 13:42               ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-02 18:55                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-03 13:55                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-02  1:58             ` Kenichi Handa [this message]

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